• Exhibit about avant-garde publisher Grove Press opens at Bird Library

  Syracuse University Library’s spring exhibition Strange Victories: Grove Press, 1951-1985  opened with a reception on Thursday, January 17, at 6 p.m. in the Special Collections gallery on Bird Library’s sixth floor. Curated by Susan M. Kline, Grove P ...
  

• Spring semester changes to Bird Library access after 9 p.m.

  Starting in the spring 2013 semester, SU Library will institute additional safety and security measures. In addition to card-reader access to Bird Library after 9 p.m., Library security staff will now routinely ask all Library users to produce their ...
  

• K. Matthew Dames named Interim Associate Dean for Research, Collections, and Scholarly Communication

  K. Matthew Dames has been appointed Interim Associate Dean for Research, Collections, and Scholarly Communication (RCSC) at the Syracuse University Library.   Dr. Dames, a member of the Dean’s Team in his capacity as Director of the Copyright and Inf ...
  

• VPA grad student Jason Egitto exhibits works in the Biblio Gallery

  Works by Jason Egitto is featured in the Biblio Gallery on the 4th floor of Bird Library from January 19 to mid-February, 2013.  Egitto, a VPA graduate student majoring in computer art, holds two B.F.A.’s in computer animation and illustration ...
  

• ProQuest Statistical Abstract of the United States trial

  Trial access is available to the online version of a long standing source of statistics, the Statistical Abstract of the United States, now published by ProQuest. The ProQuest Statistical Abstract of the United States is the authoritative and compreh ...
  

• Research Roundtable session with guest speaker, William Brooks

  On Friday, February 8, Syracuse University Library’s Belfer Audio Archive will welcome William Brooks, Professor of Music at the University of York, England, and Emeritus Professor at the University of Illinois, who will lead a roundtable discu ...
  

• Request items from the SU Library Facility starting February 12

  Beginning on February 12, the Library classic catalog will be outfitted with new online forms for requesting materials that are stored at the Syracuse University Library Facility on Jamesville Avenue. Catalog records for books that have been transfer ...
  

Beginning on February 12, the Library classic catalog will be outfitted with new online forms for requesting materials that are stored at the Syracuse University Library Facility on Jamesville Avenue. Catalog records for books that have been transferred to the Facility will include a “Request this item” link; the link for journals is labeled “Request scan of article.”

Users will be prompted to login with their NetID and password to complete the request process. Article requests are processed and delivered through ILLiad, the Library’s interlibrary loan system. Books will be delivered to the Library on the next business day, followed by delivery to faculty offices, when requested.  Non-SU affiliates can also request items using customized web forms.

More information about this new request service is available on the Library website, on the SU Library Facility site, or from Melinda Dermody, head of access and resource sharing at mdermo01@syr.edu.

On Friday, February 8, Syracuse University Library’s Belfer Audio Archive will welcome William Brooks, Professor of Music at the University of York, England, and Emeritus Professor at the University of Illinois, who will lead a roundtable discussion entitled They Were There: Quotation in Songs of World War I. The roundtable will be held in the classroom at Belfer from 2:30 to 4:00 p.m.

Among the thousands of contemporary First World War-related publications are many hundreds issued by unknown musicians, many self-published. A surprisingly high number of these use musical quotation to make their points – this in contrast to Tin Pan Alley composers, who used quotation more sparingly. Notably, the emerging recording industry allied itself with Main Street USA: in a significant number of recorded songs, additional quotations are introduced, raising interesting questions about differences in audience, purpose, and aesthetics between the two industries.

This talk presents statistical and demographic information about these musicians’ use of quotation, based on an ongoing inventory of two important Midwestern collections of sheet music and an informal collection of about 250 recordings. The songs quoted, and the ways they are used, tell us something about the shared musical heritage of middle Americans. The evolution of this repertory over the eighteen months of American involvement parallels America’s changing moods, and its abrupt termination signals the country’s postwar shift of attention from international to domestic matters, from historical tradition to modernist innovations.

Brooks, a scholar of American music for many years, has published extensively on experimentalists like Charles Ives and John Cage and also on American popular culture of the early twentieth century.

For more information about the roundtable and Brooks’ research, visit library.syr.edu/find/scrc/programs/roundtable.

Due to limited seating, advanced registration is required. To register, contact Barbara Brooker at bbbrooke@syr.edu or at 315.443.9763.

Co-sponsored by the Humanities Center, the Research Roundtable series in the Special Collections Research Center (SCRC) is designed to connect outside scholars who have used special collections with Syracuse University faculty and students having similar interests.

Trial access is available to the online version of a long standing source of statistics, the Statistical Abstract of the United States, now published by ProQuest.

The ProQuest Statistical Abstract of the United States is the authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic conditions of the United States.

To access the trial, point your browser to:
libezproxy.syr.edu/login?url=search.proquest.com/statistical?landingpage=statab

Feedback is welcome. Comments may be sent to Tasha Cooper at nacoop01@syr.edu.

Trial access is available through February 28.

Updated monthly, this repository of ready-to-use tests and measures from the APA features instruments that are relevant to psychology and related fields, such as psychiatry, education, medicine, business, social work and more.  International in scope, PsycTESTS provides access to thousands of actual test instruments, most of which are available for immediate download and use in teaching and research. PsycTESTS is an authoritative source of structured information about tests of interest to a variety of fields, and while focused on contemporary instances of test use, has coverage that spans more than a century.

Each detailed test record includes a summary, background information, development history, purpose, reliability and validity data (when available), test format and the citation for the peer-reviewed source document.

PsycTESTS includes:

• Tests that were originally developed for research and were not made commercially available
• A growing selection of multilingual test instruments
• Information about select tests that are available from commercial test publishers

The trial is available through February 21 at: search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=pst

For more information, contact Adina Mulliken at amullike@syr.edu.

Trial access is available to Silent Film Online, from Alexander Street Press.

Silent Film Online contains 250 streaming online titles and will more than double in size by completion. Together, these films represent the foundation of modern cinematic technique and film theory. Carefully curated by Alexander Street’s editors and Video Advisory Board, the collection covers silent feature films, serials, and shorts from the 1890s to the 1930s. It includes the most complete, authoritative versions of the highest quality from leading distributors.

A description of Silent Film Online content is available here: alexanderstreet.com/products/silent-film-online.

To access the collection, point your browser to:
silf.alexanderstreet.com

Feedback is welcome. Comments may be sent to Patrick Williams at jpwill03@syr.edu.

Trial access is available through March 14.